Apple Music crashing since updating to iOS 16.4

This is my scenario on 16.4.1 with music stored locally on the phone:

1. click either Songs or Albums
2. click Shuffle
3. song starts playing but all buttons become unresponsive. Playback stops about 20 seconds later (guessing, I didn’t time it) and app crashes.

This is NOT occurring when shuffling within a playlist, individual artist, or single album. It is only happening when shuffling the entire library via Songs or Albums. I have not added or removed anything from the library since prior to the 16.4.1 update, and it was working then, so it seems reasonable to conclude the issue was introduced with 16.4.1 (or possibly 16.4, I don’t remember if I used an all library shuffle while on that version, but I definitely did on 16.3.x and prior with no issues). I don’t remember the exact song count but I think it’s somewhere in the 10k-12k range.

Seeing exactly the same issue. I use the delete option on the Songs list all the time, so this is extremely frustrating. Happens on both iPhone and iPad and when deleting via the watch app.

Also, the Return to Clock setting for the music app on the watch isn't working as expected. I have it set to stay in the music app when in session, but it's been returning to the clock immediately, most of the times when the screen goes to sleep.

If I am playing a song that’s in my library and I go to delete said song from the library while it’s playing (which would normally just have the music skip to the next song upon doing so), the app freezes and crashes. Every time. This is a real problem for me right now. :/

I discovered the problem while trying to play a playlist that is exactly like the one you mentioned. I switched to a playlist that had 331 songs in it and the problem went away. However, Apple still needs to fix this because I've been using that "not played in 12 months" playlist for years and the problem cropped up only after upgrading to 14.6.

This is really messed up. My problem has nothing to do with playlists. In fact playlists worked fine. I had downloaded about 9,000 songs. Play them on shuffle, delete a download and the app freezes then quits. So I deleted every download and tried again just streaming the song. Same thing, if I delete a song the app freezes then crashes.

More details on this bug: If you shuffle Songs in your library, the same thing happens if you have a large library. The song starts playing, and the app crashes. However, if you shuffle songs after selecting Albums, the app will not crash! I've been shuffling songs all morning long, but large playlists still cause the app to crash. Chew on that!

I get this on HomePods. All updated and when playing a station. The ones where you pick an artist and select “Create station”.

plays for an hour or two and then all speakers just stop. Open my phone and the all is dead and if I ask Siri to resume she doesn’t and just starts playing my station.

Not tried with a downloaded playlist

I’m seeing this behavior when playing Smart Playlists with Live Updating. For example, when playing a playlist with the theme of “Unplayed This Year”, the playback freezes a few seconds into the next song after each song finishes playing. Since the Live Updating would remove the song from the playlist that has just finished playing, since it no longer matches the rules of Unplayed this Year, it results in the playback freezing and stopping.

It seems to be a problem with any smart playlist that changes when a song is played. I use playlists based on the least recently played songs. Apple Music will play the first song, and sometime during the middle of the second song, it will try to update the library database and crash. Not only that, loading one of these playlists takes 30 seconds to a minute.

Regular playlists and smart playlists that do not change the play order work just fine, no matter how many songs.

Please fix this Apple, it’s hard to believe things like this make it through testing…

Since updating to iOS 16.4 my iPhone 12 Mini no longer remembers the last played position. A nuisance but not a catastrophe - at least if a fix comes soon. iOS 16.4.1 hasn't made a difference. None of my own tricks, with and without iTunes, have worked so far.

Upgraded to 16.4.1 and still having the problem with my smart playlists. Press play or shuffle and nothing plays for about 20 seconds and the display says "Loading...". A song finally starts playing and eventually crashes in the middle of a song. Happens quicker when using CarPlay. Apple, please stop breaking things that used to work.

Not for me! I have 16.4.1 and am using the Music app but with iTunes Match not Apple Music. It is still giving me the same freezing issue when I shuffle and then edit/delete "playing next".

It only happens when I shuffle my whole library (almost 73,000 songs). When I shuffle downloaded songs there is no issue. I have been using iTunes Match for a years now and have never had an issue with it freezing, even with all of the songs I have in my library.

Any ideas?!?!

I’m having the same issue. Whenever I shuffle ‘all songs’ the screen freezes. When I force close music it then comes up with a white screen until I force close it again. Then I am able to get back in and shuffle the playlist. But if I try and reshuffle it it does the same thing again.

it’s been 2 months, UPDATE. I only bought this iPhone as a high-capacity iPod. Worked beautifully for a month, then the update happened. Please fix this bc tech support is not helping and I’m paying 15 bucks a month for Apple care. Come on!